Parted Magic 4.1

This version of Parted Magic fixes some bugs and adds some new features and programs. There was a scripting error that cause debs not to load in some situations, mkfstab was moved later in the booting process to stop the new fstab from being overwritten by the one from the "Save Session" package, and partimag user was added by default for partimage. The fstab daemon now detects device mapper RAID partitions while removing the unmountable mirrors from /etc/fstab. GParted and mount-gtk correctly display and mount these partitions. Our tools use the /dev/mapper nodes created by GParted, so run GParted and then you will see your DMRAID partitions in mount-gtk. Added support for new package extensions .tbz, tlz, txz. Numlock is set to "on" in and outside of X by default. Parted Magic is slightly larger this time around because there wasn't a squashfs-lzma patch that seemed usable for Linux 2.6.29 and squashfs 4.0.

Is there a way in order to automatically select a different keyboard layout (not US) at Parted Magic startup?

I use from grub4dos the "3.7" version (as "pmagic" folder) and it works fine (with the "keymap=xx" line/command), but it seems to me that in "4" releases then the "keymap" command is not working.If I run the "setxkbmap xx" command from "ROXTerm" under "4" version then it works fine, but how can I do that automatically at "Parted Magic 4" startup?Please, note that during the PM loading then in the log-screen it shows as "keymap xx" correctly loaded, but then it is not really working...

I'm glad to know that it is working for you, so that probably it is my misuse.

I'm trying to use the "IT" layout, and as said through roxterm it works (and yes, it exists in related folder): could you report to me the exact lines and version you used (however I've already tried all suggestions from your signature links)?

If I replace "keymap=it" with "it2" or "it-ibm" then the result is the same: in the log-screen appears the following line

Loading it &#40;it2/it-ibm&#41; Key Map DONE

but then the keyboard layout is not really loaded (just as already said about my previous "it" command).

The keymap is loaded, but this keymap only works in pure console mode (do logout ==> Exit X-Windows (can be named a bit different) ==> Select Exit in the menu). It uses the loadkeys program. To set the correct layout in the graphical interface, you need setxkbmap. The names of the layout are not the same (at least not in most cases) for loadkeys and setxkbmap, which is a pain in the ass .

Just tested both the ISO from your link and the "pmagic" folder extracted from the iso: it hangs at the beginnings where only the two penguins image is visible.
For the record I can confirm that when I ran the 4.1 iso or folder from my UFD "if I run the "setxkbmap it" command from "ROXTerm" under "4" version then it works fine".
I also can confirm that the "pmagic-4.1.iso" works fine from my UFD except for the IT keyboard layout issue and for this reason I actually use the 3.7 release.
Thank you for your efforts.

As further report: I've just tried the latest release "pmagic-svn.iso-27May,220159.zip" from here http://beefdrapes.partedmagic.com/ and it hangs too, exactly as the previous one with only the twopenguins picture and no screen-log line.

The related entries in my "menu.lst" are as the following (just as suggested here http://partedmagic.c...so-booting.html ) and on the other hands they are perfectly working with "pmagic-4.1.iso" (except for the kb layout issue).

I had just tried to rename the iso as "pmagic-3.7" and "pmagic-4.1" without (boot) success.
I also tried to rename the last release as you suggested (pmagic-4.2), but it still hangs.
However it seems to me that the "last" version is "pmagic-svn.iso-29May,221745.zip" yet.
Thank you for your support.

Edit: just tested "pmagic-4.2.iso-01Jun,212359.zip" and "pmagic-grub4dos-4.2.iso-01Jun,212359.zip" as ISO (pmagic-4.2) and as folder (pmagic): they hang again in the same above manner.